19,643 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.9% since 2020)
556 square miles of land · 35 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
10 active community water systems list Richland Parish in the area they serve, reporting 24,717 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOWN OF RAYVILLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1083006 | 4,842 served |
| ARCHIBALD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1083012 | 4,200 served |
| TOWN OF DELHI WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · LA1083002 | 4,071 served |
| RIVER ROAD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1083008 | 3,513 served |
| EAST RICHLAND WW DISTRICT buys groundwater · local government · LA1083003 | 3,120 served |
| START WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1083007 | 2,514 served |
| HOLLY RIDGE LODGE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1083018 | 1,350 served |
| VILLAGE OF MANGHAM WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1083005 | 927 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 645 people were held in Richland Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 5,313 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 665.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Richland Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $55.3 million — $40.1 million to run schools, about $13,914 per student, plus $13.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $18.2 million local (mostly property tax), $18.2 million state, $14.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $42.2 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Richland Parish about $7.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
204 bridges in Richland Parish: 47 in good condition, 137 fair, and 20 poor (9.8%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| US0080 over BOEUF RIVER · built 1958 | 2,747 vehicles a day |
| LA0132 over BOEUF RIVER · built 1966 | 1,913 vehicles a day |
| LA0561 over BOEUF RIVER · built 1952 | 1,543 vehicles a day |
| LA0135 over LITTLE CREEK · built 1962 | 1,260 vehicles a day |
| LA0583 over BEE BAYOU · built 1954 | 1,108 vehicles a day |
| MCLEMORE RD over BEE BAYOU · built 1966 | 320 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.1 million of work in Richland Parish in fiscal 2025, about $207 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Louisiana are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Richland Parish come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Richland Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Franklin Parish (19 mi) · Ouachita Parish (24 mi) · Morehouse Parish (28 mi) · Caldwell Parish (30 mi) · Madison Parish (30 mi) · West Carroll Parish (31 mi).